Single-cell longitudinal analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in human airway epithelium

SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, has tragically burdened individuals and institutions around the world. There are currently no approved drugs or vaccines for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19. Enhanced understanding of SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenesis is critical for the development of therapeutics. To reveal insight into viral replication, cell tropism, and host-viral interactions of SARS-CoV-2 we performed single-cell RNA sequencing of experimentally infected human bronchial epithelial cells (HBECs) in air-liquid interface cultures over a time-course. This revealed novel polyadenylated viral transcripts and highlighted ciliated cells as a major target of infection, which we confirmed by electron microscopy. Over the course of infection, cell tropism of SARS-CoV-2 expands to other epithelial cell types including basal and club cells. Infection induces cell-intrinsic expression of type I and type III IFNs and IL6 but not IL1. This results in expression of interferon-stimulated genes in both infected and bystander cells. We observe similar gene expression changes from a COVID-19 patientex vivo. In addition, we developed a new computational method termed CONditional DENSity Embedding (CONDENSE) to characterize and compare temporal gene dynamics in response to infection, which revealed genes relating to endothelin, angiogenesis, interferon, and inflammation-causing signaling pathways. In this study, we conducted an in-depth analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in HBECs and a COVID-19 patient and revealed genes, cell types, and cell state changes associated with infection..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 30. Sept. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ravindra, Neal G. [VerfasserIn]
Alfajaro, Mia Madel [VerfasserIn]
Gasque, Victor [VerfasserIn]
Habet, Victoria [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Jin [VerfasserIn]
Filler, Renata B. [VerfasserIn]
Huston, Nicholas C. [VerfasserIn]
Wan, Han [VerfasserIn]
Szigeti-Buck, Klara [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Bao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Guilin [VerfasserIn]
Montgomery, Ruth R. [VerfasserIn]
Eisenbarth, Stephanie C. [VerfasserIn]
Williams, Adam [VerfasserIn]
Pyle, Anna Marie [VerfasserIn]
Iwasaki, Akiko [VerfasserIn]
Horvath, Tamas L. [VerfasserIn]
Foxman, Ellen F. [VerfasserIn]
Pierce, Richard W. [VerfasserIn]
van Dijk, David [VerfasserIn]
Wilen, Craig B. [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2020.05.06.081695

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI017771846